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title: 'About'
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# About react-docgen

react-docgen was initially created by [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com) member
[Felix Kling](https://felix-kling.de) in 2015. Since 2016,
[Daniel Tschinder](https://danieltschinder.com) contributed to the project and
in 2019 took over as a core maintainer.

The project was initially licensed with Facebook's version of the BSD license.
With version 5.0 in 2019 the license was changed to MIT.

## Team

Currently, the project is maintained by
[Daniel Tschinder](https://danieltschinder.com). You can check out the full list
of contributors on
[GitHub](https://github.com/reactjs/react-docgen/graphs/contributors).

## Credits

react-docgen is powered by these incredible open-source projects:

- https://babeljs.io
- https://github.com/chalk/chalk
- https://github.com/tj/commander.js
- https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob
- https://pnpm.io
- https://www.mend.io/renovate
- https://github.com/browserify/resolve
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/slash
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-indent

For the website we use these projects and services:

- https://mdxjs.com
- https://netlify.com
- https://nextra.site
- https://reactjs.org
- https://tailwindcss.com

## License

The react-docgen project is licensed under the MIT license.
